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The 59th Annual Missouri Valley

History Conference

Sacred Sites, Holy Places

Magnolia Hotel, Omaha NE March 3-5, 2016

CONFERENCE STAFF: Program Chair: Martina Saltamacchia

University of Nebraska at Omaha Exhibits Coordinator: Elaine Nelson

University of Nebraska at Omaha Phi Alpha Theta Coordinator: Roger Davis

University of Nebraska at Kearney Society for Military History Coordinator: George

Eaton - US Army Sustainment Command

Conference Administrative Assistant: Jo Headrick University of Nebraska at Omaha

The Missouri Valley History Conference, Inc. is a non-profit corporation in the state of Nebraska. The 59th Annual MVHC is sponsored by MVHC, Inc., and the History Department of the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Pre-registration (by February 19) is $80.00. Registration at the door is $100.00. MVHC participants, conferees, presenters, chairpersons, commentators and observers are expected to register. UNO students not on the program will be admitted without charge upon showing valid student identification.

Papers are intended solely for MVHC panels. Digital reproduction is not permitted without express consent of each presenter.

Additional Thanks go to: Colt Severson (logo design), Maria Arbelaez (Phi Alpha Theta, local), and the UNO history graduate assistants (various duties).

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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Thursday, March 3

3:00-5:00pm: Museum Excursions 5:30-6:00pm: Cocktail Reception 6:00-7:00pm: First Keynote Speaker Lecture 8:00-10:00pm: Bed Time Milk & Cookies at the Fireplace

Friday, March 4

6:00-9:00am: Breakfast Buffet 8:30-10:15am: Session #1 10:00-10:30am: Morning Break 10:30-12:15pm: Session #2 12:30-2:00pm: PAT Luncheon 2:00-3:45pm: Session #3 3:45-4:00pm: Afternoon Break 4:00-5:45pm: Session #4 6:00-9:00pm: MVHC Reception – Durham Museum 9:00-10:00pm: Bed Time Milk & Cookies at the Fireplace

Saturday, March 5

7:00-10:00am: Breakfast Buffet 8:30-10:15am: Session #5 10:00-10:30am: Morning Break 10:30-12:15pm: Session #6 12:15-2:00pm: Lunch Break 2:00-3:30pm: Second Keynote Speaker Lecture 3:30-3:45pm: Afternoon Break 3:45-5:30pm: Session #7 5:30-6:30pm: Closing Cocktail Reception

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Thursday, March 3, 2016

3:00-5:00 pm: Pre-Conference Excursions Tour – Joslyn Art Museum & Durham Museum

5:00-8:00 pm: Registration

5:30-6:00 pm: Opening Remarks & Cocktail Reception – Magnolia Ballroom

6:00-7:00 PM • FIRST KEYNOTE

SPEAKER LECTURE PAMELA BERGER (Boston College)

The Crescent on the Temple Room: Magnolia Ballroom

8:00-10:00 pm: Bed Time Milk & Cookies at the Fireplace – The Magnolia Club

Friday, March 4, 2016

6:00-9:00 am: Breakfast Buffet - The Magnolia Club

8:00 am-4:00 pm: Registration

8:30-10:15 AM • SESSION 1 REFORM AND REACTION IN SOUTH DAKOTA POLITICS Room: Columbine Chair and Commentator: Jon Lauck, University of South Dakota

Jeff Wells, University of Nebraska at Kearney Henry Langford Loucks and the Populist Press Chuck Vollan, South Dakota State University ‘If the Majority of the People of South Dakota Want Beer They are Entitled to it:’ The Sudden Cultural and Political Collapse of Alcohol Prohibition in South Dakota

Matthew Pehl, Augustana University Right-to-Work Laws and the Anti-Labor Movement in Postwar South Dakota

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CONVERSIONS AND TRUST IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MISSIONS Room: Bluebonnet Chair: Damian Smith, St. Louis University

Emanuele Colombo, De Paul University Contested Boundaries. A Muslim Turning Jesuit in Seventeenth-Century Europe Thérèse Peeters, Leiden University Trust and the Mission: The Vincentians in North Africa, 1645-1683 STRANGE ENCOUNTERS: MORMONS, PUNKS AND BOY SCOUTS Room: Lotus Chair: Mary Lyons-Carmona, University of Nebraska at Omaha Chase M. Webster, University of Nebraska at Kearney Negotiating Zion: The Evolution of Mormon Communalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Erick Wadsworth, University of Nebraska at Kearney Wyoming, NT, 1864-1866: The Heart of the Southern Mormon Trail Johnathan Williams, University of Northern Iowa ‘The Recline of Midwestern Civilization': Midwest Punk Rock, Economic Restructuring, and Creating a Community [1980-1984] Kurt E. Leichtle, University of Wisconsin River Falls The Founding Triumvirate of Boy Scouts: Seton, Beard, and West ROME ASCENDANT Panel sponsored by the Society for Military History Room: Lavender East Chair: Jeanne Reames, University of Nebraska at Omaha Laura Valiani, Georgia State University The Crews of the Carthaginian Navy and the Punic Wars

Jason Linn, California Polytechnic University No-Man’s Time: The Roman Army at Night

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Seth Kendall, Georgia Gwinnett College The Art of War in the First Five Books of Titus Livius NON-BATTLE ASPECTS OF WORLD WAR I Panel sponsored by the Society for Military History Room: Lavender West Chair: John Reese, Air Command and Staff College Jared Dockery, Harding University Two Years in Coblenz: J. Lawton Collins’s Deployment with the American Forces in Germany, 1919-1921 Barbara Wilcox, independent scholar Trench and Campus: Stanford University’s World War I Battlefield

George Eaton, US Army Sustainment Command Walter Krueger in Training – Non Combat Learning in WWI Commentator: Chris Simer, University of Wisconsin-River Falls PHI ALPHA THETA SESSION # 1 Panel sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta Room: Violet Chair: Spencer Davis, Peru State College

Andrew Heckroth, Wartburg College Wehrmacht in the Heartland: German POW Camps in Iowa during WWII

Douglas Cole Fenske, University of Nebraska at Kearney Segregation in a Midwestern Town: Racial Relations in World War II Kearney

Christopher Bonin, University of Nebraska at Kearney Stonewall Jackson: Most Popular General in American History

SITES OF MISSION AND REFORM (UNDERGRADUATE SESSION) Room: Library Chair: Dean Shumate, Creighton University

Sarah Hammond, South Dakota State University A Study of the Musical Changes That Occurred as a Result of the Reformation

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Anna Hobbs, Baker University Bishop William Alfred Quayle: A Man of God in God's Outdoors Collin Studer, Baker University An Unconstitutional Education: Application of the Lemon Test to the Civilization Fund Act 10:15-10:30 am: Break – Magnolia Ballroom

10:30 AM-12:15 PM • SESSION 2 SLAVERY, MEMORY AND SANCTITY Room: Columbine Chair: Kent Blansett, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Spencer Davis, Peru State College Frederick Douglass’s Christmas Controversy

Jill Jozwiak, University of Illinois-Chicago Susan Bradford Eppes and Zora Neale Hurston: Ordering the Memory of African American Labor within the Florida Landscape, 1920-1939

Paul Williams, University of Nebraska at Omaha The Empty Tomb of Isidor Bakanja: Finding Sacred Space in a Forest of Spirits in Central Congo

SACRED SPACES AND MEDIEVAL DEVOTIONS Room: Lotus Chair: Douglas Biggs, University of Nebraska at Kearney Erika Lauren Lindgren, Wartburg College Sacred Spaces on the Margins: The Patterns of Medieval Monasticism in the Scottish Islands Sarah C. Luginbill, University of Colorado at Boulder Heaven on Earth: Medieval Relics and the Concept of Sacred Space C. Matthew Phillips, Concordia University The Mark of the Cross and the Tau: The Exegetical Tradition behind Innocent III’s Call for the Crusade at the Fourth Lateran Council

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UNCOMMON ASPECTS OF WORLD WAR II Panel sponsored by the Society for Military History Room: Lavender East Chair: Jerome Martin, Command Historian, US Strategic Command Connie Harris, Dickinson State University Professor Harold Deutsch's time in the Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis Division during World War II

Ross Huxoll, University of Nebraska at Kearney Capturing the Fighting Spirit of Nebraskans: Omaha World-Herald Correspondent Lawrence W. Youngman’s Contribution to the Nebraska War Effort During World War II

John Reese, Air Command and Staff College US WWII Logistics Strategy in China Commentator: Stephen Bourque, US Army Command and General Staff College USING ROMAN MATERIAL CULTURE TO ASSESS IMPERIAL ROMAN IDEOLOGY Room: Lavender West Chair: Graham Wrightson, South Dakota State University

Michael Beech, independent scholar Divine Descent: The Politics of Evoking Venus Genetrix in Julio-Claudian Portraiture Gregory Bucher, Creighton University Three and One-Half Unpublished Roman Funerary Portraits from the Joslyn Art Museum Ivancica Schrunk, University of St. Thomas Private Luxury and Imperial Ideology: Three Temples of the Roman Maritime Villa on Brioni Island, Croatia

Gaius Stern, University of California at Berkeley Some Priests on the Ara Pacis and Other Troublesome Figures

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TRAVEL SITES & POLITICAL SPACES (UNDERGRADUATE SESSION) Room: Bluebonnet Chair: Danielle Battisti, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Ryan Moretz, Waldorf College Truman, Civil Rights, and Dixiecrats

Jennifer Sutton, South Dakota State University Watergate and the End of Détente

Emily Simon, Newman University Through the Looking Glass: Western Encounters in Korea 1880-1910 PHI ALPHA THETA SESSION # 2 Panel sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta Room: Library Chair: David Nesheim, Chadron State College Felicia Hammons, Wichita State University It’s Not About the Whales: The Continued Need for Protectionist Environmental Legislation

Virginia Gallner, University of Nebraska at Omaha Jonah in Repose, the Dust of St. Symeon and the Emperor Mystique: Hellenistic Art and Religion in the Byzantine World PHI ALPHA THETA SESSION # 3 Panel sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta Room: Violet

Chair: Torsten Homberger, University of Nebraska

at Kearney Grace Rempp, Hastings College The Decline of Witchcraft and the Development of Legal Gender Consideration in Eighteenth Century Scotland

April White, University of Nebraska at Kearney Women’s Prison Systems in Nebraska and the Women’s Movement in the Early Twentieth Century

Brian Whetstone, Hastings College The Persistence of Feme Covert Colonial Ideology and the Modern House Museum

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12:30-2:00 PM • PHI ALPHA THETA LUNCHEON

Room: Magnolia Ballroom Speaker: Graydon Tunstall, University of South Florida, Executive Director of Phi Alpha Theta

“Present at Creation: How the First World War Initiated Today's Middle East Crisis”

Presentation includes ceremony for undergraduate and graduate student best paper awards

Advance reservation required

During the lunch break, complimentary shuttles to the Old Market will depart from the Magnolia Hotel every ten minutes between 12:15 pm and 1:20 pm; shuttles back to the Magnolia Hotel will depart from

the southwest corner of 11th St. and Howard St. (outside of Spaghetti Works) every ten minutes

between 1:30 pm and 2:00 pm.

2:00-3:45 PM • SESSION 3 HOLY SITES & BATTLEFIELDS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST Room: Columbine Chair: Jeanne Reames, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Joshua Nudell, University of Missouri The Past Predicts the Future: Manipulating Myth and Prophecy in the Refoundation of the Oracle of Apollo at Didyma, c.305 BCE

Michelle Hill, San Antonio College Conversion and the Cult of Atargatis John Patchen, Baker University/University of Nebraska-Kearny Redefining Darius: A New Perspective on the Battle of Gaugamela EXPERIMENTS OF POWER & REFORM IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE EUROPE Room: Bluebonnet Chair and Commentator: Sarah C. Luginbill, University of Colorado at Boulder

Sonja Jackson, University of Nebraska at Kearney Emma of Normandy: The Study of Royal Female Power and Authority in the 9th through the 11th Centuries

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Sarah Hoegger, University of Nebraska at Kearney Restoring Order: The Sheriffs of Henry V

Christopher Bacich, Stanford University Attempting Reform in the Fifteenth-Century: Lorenzo Giustiniani and the Nine Congregations of the Clergy of Venice

THE DIVERSE SACRED SITES OF THE HOLY LAND Room: Lotus Chair: Paul Williams, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Rami Arav, University of Nebraska at Omaha The Chalcolithic Pilgrimage Temple at Ein Gedi Nicolae Roddy, Creighton University Bethsaida in the World of Antiochus III

Curtis Hutt, University of Nebraska at Omaha The Synagogues of Late Antique Palestine NARRATIVE SPACE AS THE SITES AND PLACES FOR CONFLICT Panel sponsored by the Society for Military History Room: Lavender East Chair and Commentator: Terry Beckenbaugh, US Army Command and General Staff College LTC Brian Steed, USA, US Army Command and General Staff College Sacred Speech, Holy Past: How ISIS Maneuvers in the Narrative Space MAJ Robert Payne, USA, US Army Command and General Staff College Military Application of Mission Narrative Maj M. Alexis W. Piet, USMCR, US Army Command and General Staff College The Narrative Space We Ignore: Case Studies of Female Participation in Societal Violence

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SOME MILITARY FACETS OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR Panel sponsored by the Society for Military History Room: Lavender West Chair and Commentator: Shannon E. Fleming, independent scholar and author José E. Alvarez, University of Houston-Downtown The Army of Africa and the Battle of Badajoz Colonel Antonio J. Candil, Spanish Army (retired) Armored Warfare during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Charles McCaffrey, Governors State University Creating a New Collective Memory in Spain: The Excavation of Republican Graves IDENTITY, INDIVIDUALITY AND LOCALISM (UNDERGRADUATE SESSION) Room: Violet Chair: Erika Lauren Lindgren, Wartburg College Samuel Kendrick, Baker University Khnum, the Elephantine, and the Spirituality of Pottery in the Old Kingdom Michelle Critchfield, Baker University Identity & Ethnicity in Late Medieval Britain

Stetson Kastengren, South Dakota State University Acknowledging Individuality: The Perpetuation of Dakota and Lakota Literature PHI ALPHA THETA SESSION # 4 Panel sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta Room: Library Chair: Roy G. Koepp, University of Nebraska at Kearney Cameron Green, University of Wyoming Pop! Pow! Bang! The Best-Worst Superhero on Television Ashley Sanders, Wartburg College Lizzie Siddal: Ophelia on Canvas and In Life

Nick Musgrave, Hastings College James Bartholomew Blackwell: Demystifying the Legend of an Irish Rake in Revolutionary France

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3:45-4:00 pm: Break – Magnolia Ballroom

4:00-5:45 PM • SESSION 4 THE MAKING OF THE WEST: CITIES, RAILROADS AND STEAMBOATS Room: Columbine Chair and Commentator: Bruce Garver, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Lawrence H. Larsen, Emeritus, University of Missouri-Kansas City Barbara J. Cottrell Larsen, National Archives at Kansas City (retired) The Gilded Age Future Midwest Cityscape

Kyle Bacus, University of Nebraska at Omaha 150 Years Since the Passing of Samuel Ryan Curtis: Reexamining His Political Influence in Legislating the Union Pacific Railroad Kassandra Nelson, independent scholar The Prince of the Upper Missouri: Captain James McGarry

WOMEN RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND THEIR LEGACIES Room: Bluebonnet Chair and Commentator: Marilyn L. Grady, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Alisha Bollinger, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Mary Faith Schuster, O.S.B.: Words Helped Her Walk in Possibility Eva Burns Bachman, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Barbara Higdon: Called to Lead, Called to Serve

SACRED LAND, SACRED SITES Room: Lotus Chair: Denny Smith, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Todd Allin Morman, University of Missouri The Historical Change from Religious Ignorance and Arrogance to Informed Choice in the Administration of Indigenous Sacred Sites in the United States: A Detailed Look at the Federal Administration of the Most Sacred of Hopi Places at the Turn of the Century

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Matthew R. Deepe, Oklahoma State University Making Medicine: Intertribal Revitalization on the Southern Plains Prior to the Ghost Dance

Abbie Harlow, University of Oklahoma Sacred Loss: The Role of Land in Native American Dispossession

IS THIS THE COLD WAR? Panel sponsored by the Society for Military History Room: Lavender East Chair: George Eaton, SMH Coordinator for MVHC Seth Givens, Ohio University ‘The Defense of Berlin Starts at the Mekong’: Lyndon Johnson and the Cold War’s Frontier Outpost

William Taylor, Angelo State University Who Serves When Not All Serve: The Marshall Commission and American Military Service during the Vietnam War Joshua Flores, Cadet Third Class, US Air Force Academy NASA Cooperation with the DoD and CIA Between 1959-1966 Alyssa Reil, University of Nebraska at Kearney Community Building and Culture in the Atomic West: The Life and Legacy of Faith Beamer Cooke Commentator: Sean Kalic, US Army Command and General Staff College ANCIENT AND HOLY SITES IN THE MIDDLE EAST THROUGH WAR AND PEACE Room: Lavender West Chair and Commentator: Robert Nash, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Nicholaus Pumphrey, Baker University The Bullets of Akko: War Alters Archaeological Sites in Israel Curtis Hutt, University of Nebraska at Omaha Destroying, Creating, and Transforming the Holy in the Holy Land James D. Clark, The American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS) Iran and the Shiite Shrine Cities of Iraq

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TIME TO PLAY! FOOTBALL, BASEBALL, AND GOLF IN AMERICAN HISTORY Room: Library Chair and Commentator: Connie Harris, Dickinson State University

Douglas Biggs, University of Nebraska at Kearney A Team of Hired Semi-Professionals? Football at Iowa Agricultural College, 1894-1897

Vernon L. Volpe, University of Nebraska at Kearney Albert Spalding, Wright & Ditson, Baseball, and the Promotion of American Golf

Mark R. Ellis, University of Nebraska at Kearney Will Omaha Have a Golf Club? The Early Years of Golf in Nebraska Daryl Webb, Cardinal Stritch University The Baseball Blues: Minor League Baseball’s Struggle for Survival in Superior, Wisconsin, 1930-1942

PHI ALPHA THETA SESSION # 5 Panel sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta Room: Violet Chair: Linda Van Ingen, University of Nebraska at Kearney Samantha Jackson, Peru State College One of Many Behind Camelot

Leslie Mueller, Doane College Image and Modernity in the Election of 1960

Joshua Roeder, Wichita State University Teen Titans and a Generational Movement of the 60s and 70s

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FRIDAY EVENING RECEPTION 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Durham Museum – The Trish & Dick Davidson Gallery

Please join us for the annual Missouri Valley History Conference soirée! BBQ dinner, wine,

beer and non-alcoholic drinks provided (please bring ID for the bar).

During the evening, attendees will have the possibility of visiting the museum permanent

exhibits as well as the temporary exhibits, Buffalo Bill and Camelot.

The Durham Museum is a 14 minute walk from the hotel – see map included in your welcome folder. Shuttles to the museum will depart from the Magnolia Hotel every ten minutes between

5:50 pm and 7:00 pm; shuttles back to the Magnolia Hotel will depart from the Durham

Museum every ten minutes between 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm – for both rides, please register in advance at the registration desk at the entrance

9:00-10:00 pm: Bed Time Milk & Cookies at the

Fireplace - The Magnolia Club

Saturday, March 5, 2016 7:00-10:00 am: Breakfast Buffet - The Magnolia

Club

8:00 am-2:00 pm: Registration

8:30-10:15 AM • SESSION 5 GRIEF, MOURNING AND DEATH IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD Room: Columbine Chair: Dan Powers, University College of Dublin

Charles King, University of Nebraska at Omaha Agora of the Dead: Reconsidering Homer's Portrayal of the Afterlife David Hollander, Iowa State University The Roman Way of Death

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Lorina Quartarone, University of St. Thomas Ingens and Death in the Aeneid

Kim King, Iowa State University The Economics of Flowers, Herbs and Perfumes in Rites for the Dead

VIRTUAL SITES: THE VIRTUAL WORLD PROJECT (www.virtualworldproject.org) Room: Bluebonnet Chair: Curtis Hutt, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Ron Simkins, Creighton University Nicolae Roddy, Creighton University 19TH C. MISSOURI RIVER AND OREGON IDENTITIES Room: Lotus Chair: Elaine Nelson, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Chris Steinke, University of Nebraska at Kearney Crossing Reservation Boundaries on the Missouri River, 1829–1889 Adam C. Christians, University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls Agent of Opportunity: Captain Benjamin Bonneville in a Contested Country Harlan Seyfer, Plattsmouth Historic District Who Really Discovered the Platte River? SACRED ASPECTS OF WAR Panel sponsored by the Society for Military History Room: Lavender East Chair: William Kautt, US Army Command and General Staff College Carol Burke, University of California, Irvine The Place of the Sacred in Recent Wars of Counterinsurgency Jeff Ewen, Drew University Religion and the US Civil War Barbara Dush-Micek & Nancy Hansen, independent scholars Marking Time Away by Counting Religious Holidays

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Commentator: George Eaton, SMH Coordinator for MVHC DIVERSE ASPECTS OF PRACTITIONERS OF THE PROFESSION OF ARMS Panel sponsored by the Society for Military History Room: Lavender West Chair: Joseph Fitzharris, Emeritus, University of St Thomas Donald Bittner, Emeritus, Marine Corps Command and Staff College Last of the Last: Two Royal Marine Officers and the Final Duel Involving Royal Naval Personnel in Britain, 1845 Kathleen Broom Williams, Holy Names University With the Eye of an Artist and the Ear of a Jazz Musician: A British Seaman’s View of New Orleans in World War II Prisco Hernandez, US Army Command and General Staff College Martial Honor, National Pride, and the Joust of War: The Combat of the Eleven Commentator: Katherine Reist, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown GEOGRAPHIES OF GENOCIDE Room: Library Organizer: Chad Gibbs, University of Nebraska at Omaha Chair and Commentator: David A. Messenger, University of Wyoming

Chad Gibbs, University of Nebraska at Omaha The Duisburg Archive Treblinka Trial Map: Demonstrating the Spatial Importance of Prisoner Resistance Social Networks Krist Jessup, University of Wyoming Violence on the Borderland: Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide as Strategic Geography in Bosnia during the Yugoslav War Ross Mac Wade, University of Wyoming Territorial Trauma: The Legacy of Genocide in Greek and Armenian Irredentism

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PHI ALPHA THETA SESSION # 6 Panel sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta Room: Violet

Chair: Brandi Hilton-Hagemann, Doane College Thomas Carroll, University of Nebraska at Kearney After the Storm: Admiral Capps and the Emergency Fleet Corporation of WWI

Kelly J. Herold, University of Nebraska at Kearney Buffalo County’s Women of WWI: Contributions of Overlooked Warriors on the Home Front

Clyde Brant, University of Nebraska at Kearney U.S. Diplomacy in Iran during WWII 10:15-10:30 am: Break – Magnolia Ballroom

10:30 AM-12:15 PM • SESSION 6 ROUNDTABLE: MAKING MAPS, MAKING HISTORY: INTERDISCIPLINARY ENDEAVORS Room: Columbine Organizer, Chair and Moderator: Kimberly K. Porter, University of North Dakota Paul Jensen, University of North Dakota Politics of the Prairie: A Survey of Early North Dakota Gubernatorial Elections (1889-1930)

Jacob Crane, University of North Dakota A Brief Narrative on the History of Nuclear Weapons in North Dakota, as Mapped by the North Dakota Atlas Project

Adam Ratchenski, University of North Dakota North Dakota Atlas Project: A History of the Conservation Reserve Program in North Dakota

ROUNDABLE: CELEBRATING THE NATION’S BACKYARD: THE GEOGRAPHIC ALLIANCE OF IOWA AND THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CENTENNIAL Room: Lotus Organizer: Leisl Carr Childers, University of Northern Iowa Chair and Moderator: Alex Oberle, University of Northern Iowa

Michael W. Childers, University of Northern Iowa

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Leisl Carr Childers, University of Northern Iowa Nicole Hindman, University of Northern Iowa Benjamin Humphrey, University of Northern Iowa Kailyn Bettle, University of Northern Iowa WORKSHOP: THE CLASSROOM AS A SPACE TO (ROLE-)PLAY – TEACHING THE SECOND CRUSADE WITH “REACTING TO THE PAST (RTTP)” Room: Library Organizers and Chairs: Helen Gaudette, Queens College, City University of New York Martina Saltamacchia, University of Nebraska at Omaha This workshop will introduce participants to a new pedagogical approach, the Reacting to the Past curriculum, centered around student-driven role-playing in which students assume historical roles, informed by extensive reading of primary sources, and engage with specific, historically-accurate scenarios. Participants will engage in Helen Gaudette’s RTTP game "The Second Crusade: The War Council at Acre, 1148,” which brings to life a dramatic turning point in the history of the twelfth-century crusades. Participants should notify Helen Gaudette via email Helen.Gaudette@qc.cuny.edu if planning to attend in order to receive materials prior to the workshop- but signing up will also be available during the conference at the registration desk on Thursday and Friday.

ASPECTS OF REVOLUTION AND REBELLION Panel sponsored by the Society for Military History Room: Lavender East Chair: William Taylor, Angelo State University Chris Newman and Danielle Haisan, Elgin Community College Continuing the Classification of Revolution and Rebellion Dean Shumate, Creighton University The Exoskeleton – Role of Advisors in Insurgencies – El Salvador Broc Anderson, Chadron State College The Globalization of Fidel’s Revolution

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Salvatore Chiporo, McGill University Colonel Thomas Dongan and the Iroquois arms trade in late seventeenth-century New York: An analysis and examination of the historical record. Commentator: Donald Bittner, Emeritus, Marine Corps Command and Staff College GREEKS AND ROMANS AND WAR AND PEACE Panel sponsored by the Society for Military History Room: Lavender West Chair: Gaius Stern, University of California Berkeley Dan Powers, University College of Dublin The Battle of Olympia: Sanctuaries, Greed, Power, and the Olympic Festival Graham Wrightson, South Dakota State University How to Succeed in Hellenistic Siege Warfare Josh Utterback, South Dakota State University A Comparative History of Pax Romana and Pax Americana Andrew Woodworth, North Dakota State University Barbarian Empire: War, Military Force, and the First-Century Marcomannic Hegemony PHI ALPHA THETA SESSION # 7 Panel sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta Room: Bluebonnet Chair: Joseph Weixelman, Wayne State College Robert Nickels, University of Nebraska at Kearney Homesteaders versus Kinkaiders: Collective Memory and the Shaping of the Perception of Land Policy in Western Nebraska Laurel Kay Teal, Hastings College Stories from around Kit Carson’s Last Campfire: The Gothic and the Creation of Regional Identity in Douglas County, Colorado Tayler Nordhausen, Doane College Sex and Murder in Small Town Nebraska

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PHI ALPHA THETA SESSION # 8 Panel sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta Room: Violet Chair: Lance Grahn, Kent State University

Michelle Kaiser, Peru State College A History of the Catholic Church in Otoe County Daniel Feickert, University of Nebraska at Kearney A Great Plains Farmer During the Great Depression Andrew McGuire, University of Nebraska at Kearney World War One and Sedition in the Bigfork Valley 12:15-2:00 pm: Lunch Break Complimentary shuttles to the Old Market will depart from the Magnolia Hotel every ten minutes between 12:15 pm and 1:20 pm; shuttles back to the Magnolia Hotel will depart from the southwest corner of 11th St. and Howard St. (outside of Spaghetti Works) every ten minutes between 1:30 pm and 2:00 pm.

2:00-3:30 PM • SECOND KEYNOTE SPEAKER LECTURE THOMAS F. MADDEN (St. Louis University)

Crusades and ISIS Room: Magnolia Ballroom

3:30-3:45 pm: Break – Magnolia Ballroom

3:45-5:30 PM • SESSION 7 POLITICS, MISSION AND PROPAGANDA Room: Columbine Chair and Commentator: Matthew Oyos, Radford University

Roy G. Koepp, University of Nebraska at Kearney The Limits of Paramilitary Politics: The Case of League Bavaria and Reich Torsten Homberger, University of Nebraska at Kearney Material Culture and Masculinity: Hitler’s Stormtroopers and Image Construction

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Sharon Neet and Susan Brorson, University of Minnesota, Crookston Temple of the Revolution – The Appeal to Reason, Physical and Spiritual Home of Socialism

SITES OF EDUCATION, SITES OF MEMORY Room: Bluebonnet Chair: Karen Garver, University of Nebraska at Omaha

William Stoutamire, University of Nebraska at Kearney ‘Every Yard Boasted a Metate’: Community Heritage, Preservation, and the Founding of the Museum of Northern Arizona Joyce E. Bromley, independent scholar Sacred Sites and Social Change: The Role of Churches in the Former East Germany SPACES OF LEARNING: INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGIES Room: Lotus Chair: Helen Gaudette, Queens College, City University of New York

Todd Allin Morman, University of Missouri Negotiation Simulation Games for any History Class Charles McCaffrey, Governors State University Marketing War in the Classroom with American World War I Posters John D. Richards, Baker University Sound of the Barritus: War Cries and Other Adventures in Gamification CIVIL WAR IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Panel sponsored by the Society for Military History Room: Lavender East Chair: Mike Vogt, Iowa Gold Star Military Museum Evelyn Buday, Purdue University Applying Game Theory to the Strategic Options Available to Great Britain, the United States, and the Confederacy During the Diplomatic Crisis of the ‘Trent Affair’ 1861 Thomas Nester, Bridgewater State University Reconstruction’s True Radicalism

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Richard Maska, Lewis University Freedom's Converts: Prairie State Soldiers' Response to Slavery in the Civil War Commentator: William Taylor, Angelo State University NEW DIRECTIONS IN ANTEBELLUM SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL HISTORY Room: Lavender West Chair and Commentator: Vernon L. Volpe, University of Nebraska at Kearney

Christopher Childers, Benedictine College Seeking a Constitutional Middle Ground: Edward Livingston and the Webster-Hayne Debate Michael Frawley, University of Texas of the Permian Basin Clearing the Fog of War: Industry in the Gulf South on the Eve of the War Adam Pratt, University of Scranton Jacksonian Flash Mobs: The Fantisticals and Street Theatre in Democratizing America PHI ALPHA THETA SESSION # 9 Panel sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta Room: Library Chair: Erika Lauren Lindgren, Wartburg College Austin M. Setter, Wichita State University Medieval Role Models: Portraying Our Social Ideals through Medieval Themed Film

Nathaniel Kosmicki, Hastings College The Enlightenment by Way of Lampposts: Civic Reform in Spanish New Orleans Andrea Gomez, Peru State College Defining Legacies in Civil Rights History PHI ALPHA THETA SESSION # 10 Panel sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta Room: Violet Chair: John Franklin, Graceland University Marietta Kathrin Kuhl, Chadron State College Neolithic Tattoos: A Case for Independent Invention

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Tory Snyder, Chadron State College The Globalization of Chinese Porcelain: World Trade and Cultural Exchange

Ashley Snipes, University of Nebraska at Kearney Post WWII San Diego Women: Building a Community from the Ground Up

5:30-6:30 PM • CLOSING COCKTAIL RECEPTION

Room: Magnolia Ballroom

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Benefits for Students• Earn 3 hours of college credit per

course• Fulfill UNO general education

requirements• University level instruction• Course credits transfer to many

institutions• Program payment of Advanced

Placement exam fees• Low tuition rate• Access to UNO Library and its

databases• Practice AP American History and

AP World History exams eachSpring to assure candidates do wellon the exam.

• Twelve hours of graduate historytuition remitted for any qualifiedteacher enrolling in UNO’s graduatehistory program

• Registration paid to attend MVHC• Substitute teacher fees paid for

teacher attendance at MVHC• Substitute teacher fees paid to

teacher enrichment day• Teacher kitty for purchase of

classroom supplies

Benefits to Participating Schools• Classroom equipment fund• Busses for field excursions paid

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THE MIDWESTERN HISTORY ASSOCIATION? Consider joining the new scholarly association devoted to Midwestern History. The Midwestern History Association, created in the fall of 2014, is dedicated to rebuilding the field of Midwestern history. The MHA will advocate for greater attention to Midwestern history among professional historians, help rebuild the infrastructure necessary for the study of the American Midwest, promote greater academic discourse relating to the region, and offer prizes to scholars who excel in the field.

Want to learn more? Visit the MHA website: www.midwesternhistory.com You can also follow us on Twitter @MwHWG or find us on Facebook.

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Mari Sandoz shown with Colonel Edwin S. Luce at the Custer Battlefield. September 1949. Caroline Sandoz-Pifer Collection (2003.001.00270)

Sandoz & Custer Pilster Great Plains Lecture

2016

Dr. Paul Hutton, Professor of History University of New Mexico

SAVE THE DATE! | Thursday, October 13, 2016 7:30pm Chadron State College in Chadron, NE Join us on Friday, October 14th for the 2016 Sandoz Conference at Chadron State College. Registration information will be available late spring 2016. Please email echase@windstream.net for more information or to be added to our conference mailing list.

www.marisandoz.org